“We want to transcend our history without actually confronting it. We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to write about… — Saul David Copy Share Image
My favorite thing is talking to people about history - that's what I like doing. The sort of history I do isn't… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
Today never feels like it will be history, but it will. And more likely than not, you will look back and realize… — Scott Belsky Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan fought for America. He loved America. He feared where the left, based on history, wanted to take the country. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Namely I'm a fan of sides like Lyon, Marseille, PSG, but there is no preference. All these clubs, as well as Bordeaux,… — David Trezeguet Copy Share Image
“Why would you keep quiet and allow history to write itself when there is something you can do to rewrite history.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
“He was the same as everyone else: he carried his past inside him. There was no escape from it. No matter how… — Louise Douglas Copy Share Image
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The war with Iraq ... had to be one of the greatest non sequiturs in military history. Attacked by a gang composed… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We need to learn from history. These same leaders - [Barack] Obama, [Hillary] Clinton, and far too many Republicans - want to… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“We’re not eight kingdoms, but an entire land with one heartbeat. It’s why people like you and I need to record our… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“As a historian, I found myself all too often treating my historical subjects like fictional characters, malleable entities that could be made… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
“[W]hen we kill people,’ a British sea-captain says in the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies, ‘we feel compelled to pretend… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
History teaches us that the capacity of things to get worse is limitless. Roman history suggests that the short, happy life of… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
Indeed, I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
But then I remembered something Grandmere had once assured me of: No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Everton fans don't just come to watch the football. They are there for Everton, the club. They really believe in the history… — Gareth Barry Copy Share Image
Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied. — Adele Logan Alexander Copy Share Image
He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I… — John Amos Copy Share Image
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the… — Michael Bywater Copy Share Image
“History as a whole is the struggle between love and the inability to love, between love and the refusal to love.” — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle… — Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof Copy Share Image
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
This is what I think is fun about fiction - you get to use as much history as you want as scaffolding… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to win the Champions League because you can win the Ballon d'Or and not stay in history. — Kylian Mbappe Copy Share Image
Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran. — Stephen Rodrick Copy Share Image
I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my… — Anatoly Rybakov Copy Share Image
Angel of Death' is like a history lesson, but as soon as we released it everybody was calling us Nazis. Our singer's… — Jeff Hanneman Copy Share Image
The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous. — Robert Hormats Copy Share Image
Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
“If we forget our past, then we lose direction. We become lost on a changing sea, easy prey for the shifting currents… — John Zanetti Copy Share Image
It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
“India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
![“We need to learn from history. These same leaders - [Barack] Obama, [Hillary] Clinton, and far too many Republicans - want to topple [Bashar] Assad. Assad is a bad man. Gadhafi was a bad man. Mubarak had a terrible human rights record. But they were assisting us - at least [Muammar] Gadhafi and…” quote by Ted Cruz](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/11c/ted-cruz-487_assad_we-need-to-learn-from-history-these-same_3228031.png)
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